Black-throated Shrike-Tanager

The black-throated shrike-tanager is 19 to 20 cm (7.5 to 7.9 in) long. It has a shrike-like "toothed" bill with a hooked end. The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males have a bright yellow body with a faint brownish ochre wash on the breast. Their head, nape, throat, wings, and tail are black, with white tips on the lesser wing coverts. Adult females have a gray head with an olive tinge on the crown. Their upperparts, wings, and tail are tawny-brown with a strong rufescent tinge on the rump and tail. Their throat is gray, their breast and belly yellow, and their undertail coverts ochre. Their breast, sides, and flanks have an olive wash. Both sexes have a dark brown iris and blackish legs. Males have a black bill; females' are blackish.

The black-throated shrike-tanager is found on the Gulf/Caribbean slope from central Veracruz in southeastern Mexico east through Tabasco and Chiapas including the base of the Yucatán Peninsula and continuing east across northern Guatemala, south through western Belize and eastern Guatemala, and east into northwestern Honduras to Atlántida Department. It inhabits humid evergreen and semi-deciduous forest. Sources differ slightly on its upper elevational limit, stating it as 1,200 m (3,900 ft) and 1,250 m (4,100 ft).

The black-throated shrike tanager's diet has not been studied but is known to include insects. It primarily forages from the forest's mid-level to its canopy. Pairs are almost always members of a mixed-species feeding flock and often act as sentinels. It captures prey stirred up by the flock with a fast acrobatic chase.